XRF analyses of 25 selected samples of halite interbedded with Early Cambrian strata, which had been taken from stored Wilkinson 1 drill core and cuttings, returned a maximum value for contained bromine of 470 ppm Br. This result was not of enough...

In a search for possible concealed Olympic Dam type base metal deposits within an area located 80 km north-west of Yalata, the licensee investigated several previously identified contiguous magnetic and gravity anomalies by performing ground magnetic...

TRONA EXPLORATION: Of the 9 rotary/diamond holes drilled, only the first, Meramangye 1, intersected a unit equivalent to the Observatory Hill Beds, which was the target horizon for trona. Drillholes Manya nos 2-6 and Marla 7 intersected Cambrian red...

Marla 1A and 1B reached 215.30 metres and 379.40 metres respectively, penetrating aeolian sands overlying the Bulldog Shale, Cadna-owie Formation an d Observatory Hill Beds. In contrast to Byilkaoora 1, oil shows and calcite pseudomorphs after...

Ooldea 3 diamond drillhole is located on the western margin of the Gawler Craton where thin Tertiary (ca. 16 metres) and Palaeozoic (ca. 75 metres) sediments, of the Eucla and Officer Basins respectively, overlie Archaean to Early Proterozoic basement...

Seven wells were drilled in the Oak Valley area. One well drilled at the airstrip yielded 3 L/s of 74 000 mg/L water, a quality that is only suitable to use for compaction. Three wells drilled close to swamps located west of Oak Valley gave low yields...

OBD12 was designed by Western Mining Corp. to define the Cambrian sequence underlying its EL 640. Lithologies of drill core examined in thin section include siltstone, sandstone, paraconglomerate and, from 473 m, basement gneiss.

SADME stratigraphic drill hole, Observatory Hill 1, was located 270 km west of Coober Pedy to fully core the Observatory Hill Formation type section and the prognosed lithologies below it. The type section as intersected was successfully correlated...

During September-December 1976, Murnaroo 1 was drilled by the SA Department of Mines to TD 627.5 m near Observatory Hill in the central southern part of the Officer Basin, to investigate the local subsurface stratigraphy and economic potential, and...

Agate or banded chert nodules weather out of the Cambrian Andamooka Limestone over an area of several square kilometres south of the Stuart Creek Opal field. In places the agate nodules are concentrated into extensive deflation lag gravels. Banding is...

In Wilkinson 1 drillhole, 1 carbonaceous drill cuttings sample and 5 drill core samples were examined, and compared with sediments found in the Tallaringa Palaeodrainage System and Wallira West 1. Palynomorphs are present in the drill cuttings from...

Following credible and internally consistent correlation between the wells SMD5001 and SMD5002 the method using strained and unstrained quartz was extended to Murnaroo 1. Stratigraphic subdivisions were suggested which transcended local lithological...

Drilling for potable ground water in recharge areas favouring local freshening of the water table aquifer (3 holes totalling 148 metres) was unsuccessful.

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Byilkaoora 1, a stratigraphic well drilled in the northeastern part of the Officer Basin in South Australia, intersected aeolian and fluvial sandstones and mudstones overlying 224 m of fine-grained, dolomitic, calcareous and argillaceous sediments...

This outline was compiled from available seismic and drilling data. Renewed exploration activity has shown the need to upgrade information relating to the Permian and the ?Cambrian sub-basins beneath. 2 seismic programmes, to clarify the structural...

The Officer Basin is an elongate intracratonic depression underlying western South Australia and eastern Western Australia, and bounded by the Musgrave, Gawler and Yilgarn Blocks. Its southern and eastern margins are overlapped by the Tertiary Eucla...

A detailed description and interpretation of the carbonate lithologies present in drill cores recovered from two recently completed SADME stratigraphic wells have revealed that the Observatory Hill Beds in the Marla area were deposited in a shallow...

Core and cuttings from 7 stratigraphic wells in the Officer Basin were examined principally to develop a depositional model for sediments of pre-Permian age. Evidence from 6 of the wells suggests that an epeiric environment prevailed during ?Cambrian...